Daily deals website Groupon announced today that the company has hired its very first full-time accountant.
24 year old Matt Parker, a recent accounting graduate of the University of Wisconsin, has been brought on board to begin recording Groupon's financial transactions for the brand new bookkeeping department. ... Read More →
In an effort to reach out to minority communities, the Republican National Committee released an iPhone and Android application today that helps its members find new black and Latino friends.
The new app - named Darkbuddy - accesses your Facebook social graph and searches friends-of-friends and their friends for minorities. It then presents a list of potential new "buddies" to the user and encourages them to make contact. ... Read More →
Today French president François Hollande threatened to block Facebook in the country unless the social network moves its European headquarters to Paris from Dublin.
In a fiery press conference the newly elected Socialist leader said the Palo Alto, CA based company had been "exploiting" millions of French people with their service, while refusing to offer them high-paying jobs.... Read More →
HP reentered the acquisition fray today with a $5 billion purchase of social gaming titan Zynga.
The surprise move comes just one day after taking an $8 billion write-down on its previous $10 billion acquisition of enterprise software concern Autonomy.
HP is offering Zynga's existing shareholders an all cash deal at $6.32 a share, which represents a 280% premium over its closing price yesterday. ... Read More →
Former Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs has almost finished his year-long project of reinventing heaven, The Daily Currant can reveal.
The 56-year-old began his mission to improve eternity's user experience shortly after arriving last October, following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Distressed by the stuffy atmosphere behind the pearly gates, Jobs organized a non-profit organization with the goal of remolding heaven in the consumers' image.... Read More →
In a move to monetize its $8.5 billion dollar purchase of Skype, Microsoft executives have confirmed to The Daily Currant that it will be the splitting the popular video-chat software into 14 separate versions.
As it seeks to expand beyond its core Windows segment, the Redmond, WA based software behemoth will apply its tried-and-true strategy of releasing crippled versions of its products and forcing users to pay for an upgrade.... Read More →
In its continuing effort to keep potential rivals off of its lucrative mobile platform, Apple Inc. announced today that it will soon be replacing the i/OS Facebook app with a new app that only connects to Myspace.
Starting December 1st Facebook's app will be removed from the App Store. All existing Facebook apps for iPhone and iPad will automatically be converted to Myspace apps. If users wish to connect to Facebook instead of Myspace, they will have to do so through the Safari browser.... Read More →
Sources close to top Facebook executives have confirmed to The Daily Currant that the company is planning on using its $1 billion USD acquisition of social photo sharing app Instagram to roll out a radical new advertising platform which is capable of following users' emotions in real time and target advertisements based on how a they are feeling.
The platform - internally codenamed the Tom Parsons Project (TPP) - will "combine Instagram's vast user base and high daily use rate with advancements in facial recognition technology to connect users with products which most fit their immediate needs."... Read More →
In an unprecedented move Google (GOOG) honored a fellow Silicon Valley competitor with their own Google Doodle today, placing a real-time update of Facebook's (FB) stock price on Google's hompages around the world.
Google normaly reserves the prestigious Doodle for celebrations of national holidays or for honoring significant historical figures.
However, the doodle team at Mountian View, California based Google thought today would be a good day to break with tradition and congratulate its Palo Alto rival on its successful IPO listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange last week.... Read More →
Fresh off of his success in sending the first private space flight to the International Space Station, CEO of Spacex and serial entrepreneur Elon Musk announced today that he has recently returned from a journey to the center of the Earth, making him the first man in history to achieve that feat.
Musk's stealth geothermal start up - EarthX Energy - issued a press release this morning confirming that its founder and CEO has used one of the company's exploratory wells to make the journey to the Earth's inner core, to where the firm has secretly built an "energy mine" in hopes of bringing terrawatts of clean renewable energy to the surface.... Read More →
Troubled Internet leviathan Yahoo has made a dramatic entree into the mobile social networking space with a $12 billion dollar acquisition of Path - the nascent social "mininet" on iOS and Android founded by a prominent former Facebook employee.
The deal sets a clear new mobile-centric strategy for the Silicon Valley's leading Internet portal cum email service - which has struggled to adapt to the rise of Web 2.0, social media, video sharing, search engines, tha mobile web, and just about every other innovation on the Internet since hypertext.... Read More →
Have you ever agonized over not getting your sugary breakfast food out of the toaster at exactly the right time? You know what I mean. You're late to the office (or school or whatever). You pop a Pop Tart in your toaster while you're busy changing in the next room and getting your last minute Powerpoint together.
As you're putting the finishing touches on your genius proposal, BOOM - you remember that you popped that pastry in the toaster. But alas, your pastry is now too cold to eat, and if you throw it back in the toaster it will overcook. Yes - your pastry is lost.... Read More →
